Saving the tin cans
While there are something like 60 former U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels that are preserved from Pearl Harbor to Buffalo, New York, most are capital ships such as battleships or carriers, or...
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Blackjack! Devils picking up $390M worth of extra drones
The RQ-21A Blackjack, made by Boeing/Insitu is the Navy & Marine Corps’ Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) program of record, currently flown by Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle...
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Warship Wednesday, July 3, 2019: The Frogmen of Balikpapan
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship (or unit) each week. These ships have a...
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Hail, Poseidon
While kayaking around the Mississippi Sound a couple weeks back, I spotted this beauty in the sky, climbing out over Ship Island from Gulfport, and managed to get a snap. While it has the profile of a...
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Hermes, Clamagore, and Newcastle to be no more
Lots of changes among the world’s floating museum ships and those otherwise long in the tooth this week. Hermes/Viraat Centaur-class aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (R12) bouncing around the North Atlantic...
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So long, Crestview
Here we see the beautiful Miguel Malvar-class offshore patrol “corvette” BRP Sultan Kudarat (PS-22) of the Philippine Navy on 5 July 2019, as she gave her last day of military service in a career that...
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Fightin’ Fitz
While in Pascagoula a few days ago, I spotted this familiar old girl in the shallow waters of the muddy Pascagoula River along Ingalls SB’s West Bank. (Photo: Chris Eger) Note her Union Jack on the...
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Want to fly a historic boat? (As-is-where-is)
This bad boy is the experimental “hydrofoil sub chaser” USS High Point (PCH-1) out of the water somewhere on the Pacific Northwest (likely Puget Sound) going for a flight with her hull above the water....
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Three greyhounds, fitting out
While putting my kayak in at the Point in Pascagoula, I saw these three across the way at Ingalls SB’s West Bank. (Photo by Chris Eger) PCU USS John Basilone (DDG-122) is afloat and fitting out to the...
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Talisman Sabre ’19
I just love PHOTOEX shots! (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anaid Banuelos Rodriguez) TASMAN SEA (July 11, 2019) The U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan...
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Did you get your M1 Guam Quarters?
Just released by the U.S. Mint, the 48th America the Beautiful Quarter depicts U.S. forces coming ashore at Asan Bay, Guam during the liberation of that territory from Japanese occupation in 1944...
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Warship Wednesday, July 17, 2019: Willy’s Vulture
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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New Mexico by way of Guam, 75 years ago
“14-inch guns of the USS New Mexico (BB-40) opening fire on Guam, 18 July 1944, during the pre-invasion bombardment.” (NHHC: 80-G-239965) The lead ship of her class of Yankee dreadnoughts, she was laid...
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Coming home from Bloody Tarawa
D-Day On Tarawa. Drawing, Charcoal on Paper; by Kerr Eby; 1944; Framed Dimensions 39H X 51W. NHHC From the DOD: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today the remains of at least 22...
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Buckeye in the Bay, 115 years ago today
Here we see the USS Ohio, Battleship # 12, drydocked at Hunter’s Point, San Francisco, California, on 19 July 1904. Note her bow scroll. Photographed by Turrill & Miller, San Francisco. Donation of...
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Pennsy getting it done, 75 years ago today
Here we see Pearl Harbor veteran, USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) firing her 14″/45cal and 5″/38cal guns while bombarding Guam, south of the Orote Peninsula, on the first day of landings, 21 July 1944. On...
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Splash one drone in the SOH
Back in my slimmer days, I used to crawl around at Ingalls in Pascagoula as part of the long-running effort to put flesh against steel to produce warships. One of the hulls that I worked on during that...
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Warship Wednesday, July 24, 2019: Splashdown!
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Shades of Balikpapan
The largest Australian-led amphibious landing and offensive assault in history were the OBOE 2 landings at Balikpapan, Borneo (then the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies) in which some 33,000 troops hit...
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They also served, and not just getting coffee
On this day, 77 years ago– just seven months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the proposal to establish the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) as part of...
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